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Optimis Desking TM
The Joy of Creation
A HermanMiller Company
CELEBRATING CREATIVITY The Wright brothers, Walt Disney, Charles and Ray Eames all had one thing in common: they were makers. They used their hands, their skills and their imagination to create things, whether it was a plane, an animated film or a chair, each of them created something innovative and disruptive. U.S. President Barack Obama recognized the importance of making when he hosted the first Maker Faire in the U.S in June 2014. Maker Faire is about exploring new ideas and through shared learning, communities uncover ingenious solutions. It’s an offshoot of the maker movement, which celebrates making for the sake of making rather than for the sake of consumerism. Great ideas can come out of the act of creating. It is in these moments of joy and fulfillment that something might just spark your imagination.
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LESS AND MORE Here’s a question for all the makers and doers out there, can we make more with less? Answering the call in architecture is Shigeru Ban. The Japanese architect has explored the properties of simple materials and optimizing design to build structures are simple yet highly robust. Paper was one of the first materials Ban embraced. He used paper tubing to build numerous disaster relief shelters and temporary buildings across the world. It was Ban’s experimentations with the capabilities of paper that inspired the team at POSH Design Lab. How can paper and similar materials like sheet metal be optimized to create original, robust and functional designs?
LIGHT AND STRONG The design team explored the way paper moves, and they also took their cues from origami techniques, or the Japanese art of folding paper. Origami is a science as well as an art. When it comes to its applications, the sky is literally the limit – the Miura fold, created by a Japanese astrophysicist, has been scaled up to create solar panels on satellites orbiting way up in the stratosphere. For PDL the principles of origami inspired other applications, like keeping material used in the manufacturing process to a minimum and reducing the need for joints. By bending and angling simple sheet metal into unique shapes and structures, the designers were able to develop a structure that is surprising strong and rigid. Grooves and cutouts helped to confer additional strength and solidity on this desk, allowing the different components of the table to fit together with ease. The end result is a unique desking solution that is highly functional and less impactful on the environment.
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INTRODUCING OPTIMIS Celebrate the joy of creating
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CLOUD™ STORAGEBOX Optimis is available with a wide range of abovedesk storage accessories that are designed to help you manage a variety of artifacts. A raised toolbar keeps table surfaces free of your workday necessities and holds up accessories like white-board, monitor arm, Cloud Storage Box and more. The toolbar can also support the imaginative line of paper folded accessories created by PDL especially for Optimis. In the collection are shelves, trays, box files and note stands in which you can store anything you’re working on, as well as whimsical creatures and patterns that are sure to please the eye – and the mind.
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The Cloud Storage Box can also be installed on the side of the desk so you can have your reference artifacts at arm’s length. TM
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SCREEN IN Designed to support you no matter where you sit or how you work, Optimis is built with flexibility in mind. That’s why PDL designed a set of screens that can act as dividers if you share your desk, or as a way of organising your files and notes if you like to keep everything at eye level.
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Optimis, with the desk-up screen. Featured accent with pinnable fabric.
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SCREEN TEST The screens are an optional add-on for Optimis, and they can be specified to suit your individual needs and tastes. Choose from acrylic, wood, fabric, glass or customised corrugated cardboard.
Fabric screen
Wood screen
Glass with pattern screen
Acrylic divider screen
INSPIRED BY ASIA With its linear, floating form, the toolbar draws design inspiration from the Japanese torii of old, angular gates that traditionally marked the entrance to Shinto shrines. The two posts of the torii are often reinforced by a second tie beam, or nuki, which gives the gate added strength. Like its source of inspiration, Optimis’ floating toolbar is designed to provide solid support.
Screen aligner
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GREAT PLACES FOR SHOW AND TELL Featuring a modular understructure, Optimis can adapt to any working environment – whether you’re holding a conference for 20, or setting the scene for a team of three. This versatile desking solution can be configured to form individual, linear, 120 and corner desks.
Let’s Meet Optimis Meeting tables features recessed legs around extensions to free up leg space. The raised toolbar features surfaces that can hold up amenities and digital tools. The power bar rests beneath for easy access
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POWER. RIGHT HERE. RIGHT NOW Optimis is about desking done right. That means good, honest design that’s geared at maximising productivity while minimising waste. Integral to productivity in the age of smartphones is easy access to power, and that’s why Optimis comes with an optional power bar. Topped with a flip-top or removable lid, the power bar is built in to the desk surface, making it a readily available power source for all your devices, while keeping it from cluttering your desk, or your mind.
Wooden Cut Out Filpper
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Metal 2-Way Filpper
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Optimis’s discrete look makes it a natural solution for more spaces.
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SURFACE | Wood
SCREENS | Fabric Zen
Yodex
Latte
YD01 Macchiato YD02 Milky Wave YD03 Tiramisu
Jade
YD10 Grass
YD04 Saturn
YD05 Branch
YD11 Cinnamon YD12 Bubble Gum YD13 China Roof YD14 Leaf
Melamine
YD06 Cement
YD07 Pencil
YD08 Bat
YD09
Bubblegum
7305 Iron Ore
7310
Platinum
7311 Lipstick
7312 Petroleum
7313 Ash
7314 Onyx
7315 Scarlet
YD15 Sky
YD16 Porcelain
YD17 Denim
YD18
Sand
7333 Oatmeal
7334
Apple
7344 Mercury
7345 Citron
7349 Cloud
7350 Java
7351
7317 Late
7315
YD20 Mandarin
YD21 Cerise Pink YD22 Carmine
YD23 China Red YD24 Rose
YD25 Plum
YD26 Lavendar
VV Lily Vivid
VX Steel Grey
GR Smoky
SM Black
BK
Queen’s Maple QM Cathedral Oak CO Natural Teak NT
Laminate
Point Pineapple YD19 Cheddar
Ivory Vivid
YD27 Stone
1FS01 Zinc
1FS06
Kumquat
1FS61 Green Apple 1FS81
Pitch
1FS10 Coconut
1FS11 Imperial
1FS12 Bitter Chocolate 1FS14 Bling
Blueberry
1FS92 Turquoise
1FS93 Aubergine 1FS94
1FS15
Mist
1FS17 Pimento
1FS41
Ivory Vivid
VV Steel Grey
GR White
F01 Antique White F02 Graphite
F03 Mission White F11
Ripple
Ash
RE01 Wampi
RE02
Mud
RE03 Morpho
RE04 Date
RE05 Monarch
RE06 Indigo
RE07 Seaweed
RE08
Flax
Just Rose
F18 Just Blue
F26 Chalk Solidz F19 Storm Solidz F25
Maple
F04 Lincoln Wallnut
F29 Bark F21 Myrida F05 Legno Fineline F08 Copper Beech F10 Ebony Ribbonwood Ribbonwood Microplank
Aged Ash D8
F33 Natural Cane F36 Rattan Cane F39 Oiled Walnut
Medley
Stone
FX01 Sand
FX02 Moss
FX03 Ocean
FX04
Stone
1HA01 Trail
1HA02
Charcoal
1HA03 Cinder
1HA04 Citrus
1HA05 Papaya
1HA06 Chutney
1HA07 Tundra
Cosmo
Chartreuse 1HA10 Loden Moon Shadow 9101 Marigold
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Cashmere
9104 Mercury
9105 Pool
9106 Spice
Rouge
9112 Walnut
9114
Olive
9115 Quince
9117 Black
9119
Gold
2K02 Monarch
2K04
Muse
2K05 Crest
2K06 Hazel
2K07 Helm
Gladius
2K20 Charcoal
2K22
Brick
2K24 Aquarius
9107 Avocado
9108 Suede
9109 Granite
9110
2K09 Atrium
2K12 Pitch
2K14 Armor
2K18
1HA11
Peacock
1HA12 Bayou
1HA13 Blue Grotto 1HA14 Blueberry
1HA15 Mulberry
1HA08
F30
Feather Grey 1HA09
F32 Classic Walnut F28 Bleached Legno
F44 Blacken Legno
F41
1HA19
Centurion
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2K25
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FRAMES | Paint
New Snow
NS Dust Charcoal DC Jet Black
JB
Blush
CA Blue Ice
CF Lipstick
CB Whale
CK Mustard
CN Chestnut
CP
SCREEN | Glass poshworkspace.com Clear Glass
CR Frosted Glass SB Crystal
QA Pices
QB Soap Bubble QC
SCREEN | Acrylic
® HermanMiller is a registered trademark of Herman Miller, Inc. ® POSH is a registered trademark of Herman Miller, Inc. ™ Optimis is a trademark of Herman Miller, Inc. ™ Cloud is a trademark of Herman Miller, Inc. ® Global GreenTag is a registered tradmark of Global Green Tag Pty Ltd. Printed in China. Please recycle. © 2016 POSH Office Systems (HK) Ltd. All rights reserved.
Clear Acrylic AACR Frosted Acrylic AASB
PAPER | Cardboard
Natural
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Samples are representative of the materials to be supplied and may not indicate an exact match; some variation may occur. For more information about our products and services or to see a list of dealers, please visit us at poshworkspace.com
COMMITMENT AND QUALITY Following Herman Miller’s commitment to the environment, Optimis Desking meets BIFMA X7.1 (VOC emission) requirements. GreenTag® pending.
PERFORMANCE IS RECOGNIZED Manufactured in Herman Miller certified facilities in China, Optimis Desking fully complies with ANSI/BIFMA X5.5, AN/NZS 4442 and GB/T 3325. The performance and quality of Optimis Desking is ensured by an eight-year warranty.
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